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God is at work right here and right now. Sometimes we can get lost in the bigness of what God is doing, that God is at work everywhere and at all times, and forget that there are specifics to how and what God is doing wherever and whenever right here and right now happen to be. But God is at work right here and right now, wherever and whenever that is for you.

That same bigness of God can overwhelm us when we try to imagine what God is up to, imagine what God’s love is like, imagine what heaven is like, imagine what the kingdom of God is. But what would it look like to imagine what God could do right here in our lives, how God could and wants to change the way things are so that they become the way things should be.

As we are in this transitional space it is a great time to remember that God is seeking transition in the work that God is doing in the world. God does not want to leave us, or our world, in the state we and it are in.

Instead God is working to bring about change, to mold God’s creation into something more.

Right now, we are in the middle of a sermon series asking us to imagine the world that God is making, and what that more would look like, not in an abstract big picture way, but in its change for our lives, for our church, and for our community. Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus himself are constantly pointing us to what it is that God is up to in our lives, in our cities and towns, in our church. Then we are asked how we can join in with that work, to take that imagining and put it into practice as co-creators with God.

God is able to do, as the writer of Ephesians tells us, extraordinarily more than we can think or imagine. But God starts by doing something that could also be beyond our thinking and imagining, inviting us to be a part of that work, helping us to imagine a world that is so much more than we know, and then making that world a reality.

Thankful that I get to do this work alongside you!

Pastor Ben